Rainy Saturday & A Quilt Show

Since it was going to rain again yesterday I thought I would take in a local quilt show. " Stars of the Prairie". There are so very many talented people around. I will probably have to post some of the other ones later. There were just too many to do this in one post.

This first one was made by the wonderful lady that owns the quilt shop that I go too. In fact, she had 2 quilts in the show. The other one I am putting just below this one. I believe this is the one that she made for her son, the other one was for her daughter and her daughter didn't like hers as much as the Wizard of Oz one. I like how she did the photos in a "twister" setting.

This one is just awesome.

The next one some of you may have seen. I think I remember it when it was on the front of Quilting and Embroidery magazine in the fall of 2004.

There were several art quilts. Some of them were amazing. The background on some of those was painted. They looked so much like a painting from a distance. The photo probably does not do them justice, bad photographer with a cheap camera never helps either.

This table runner was really nice. It was done in a 3D style. I have seen some done in magazines like this and I know they do the stump embroidery like this as well but I have never done any of it. It sure was pretty, I am only showing a portion of it here as it was rather long and I couldn't get a complete photo of it. But you get the idea.

I was quite taken with this lion quilt. Up close it was interesting to see how she did it. I hope you will all click on the photo and enlarge it so you can see it. At least I hope that will work.

I will post some more photos later in the week. There are at least 5 other quilts that I would like to share with all of you. Two or three Grandmother's Flower Garden, one with a round medallion in the center and an old quilt.

I am so glad that I went and enjoyed all the quilts I hope all of you enjoy the ones that I have posted here.........

More Antique Show....The Quilts

I promised that I would post the photos of the
quilts that I saw at the Antique Show and Sale.

This one I thought was wonderful. The hand quilting on it was
super fine and I just love the pink andgreen. Only $295.

This one was also $295, I guess that is the going rate. Then this Lone Star, not sure if you can see it too well but the bottom of this quilt

is rounded.

I am not sure how much the Star quilt was but this pretty little Basket Quilt

was $350. I wish I could have brought them all home.

And a close up of one of the blocks.

I haven't seen too many of the Basket quilts done like this one but

I have seen them with the appliqued handle.
They all appeared to be in good shape

except for some fading and a bit of ware. I am

sure that they were well used in their day.

Thanks for enjoying the Antique Show

with me.

Antique Show and Sale

Today I thought I would take the day off from all the cleaning and reorganizing we have been doing here lately and while my hubby went to work I went to the Antique Show and Sale for some fun. I was not disappointed. I thought I would share a few beautiful things with you.

First this lovely blue ware. Some of this that is so very blue is called

flow blue, because the blue dye went

all the way through to the back.

Next for Happy Cottage Quilter

Along with this lovely set.

Then I saw this beauty, what a lamp ! Any

one of us could afford it, it was cheap, just

kidding. It had

a price tag of over

$10,000. But it was pretty and the shade was at

least 20 inches across the bottom.

I will post some photos of the quilts that I saw

tomorrow.